mute
/mjut/ verb C1- To silence, to make quiet.
- To turn off the sound of. · Please mute the music while I make a call.
- To cause the content or messages of (a social media account, a website, etc.) to no longer appear on one's feed, trigger notifications, or similar, especially without fully blocking.
He/she/it mutes · Past muted · Past participle muted · -ing form muting
Verb forms
- Base form
- mute
- He/she/it
- mutes
- Past
- muted
- Past participle
- muted
- -ing form
- muting
From the library
Ali, mute and attentive, brought the pipes and coffee, and disappeared.
mute as a carp.”
It was something terrible to witness the silent agony, the mute despair of Noirtier, whose tears silently rolled down his cheeks.
Sometimes she stood mute and motionless as a statue, looking towards Marseilles, at other times gazing on the sea, and debating as to whether it were not better to cast herself into the abyss of the ocean, and thus end her woes.
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